Celestial mechanics: Analytical model reveals true cause of orbit bifurcations near Lagrange points

Advanced space travel relies on a fundamental understanding of the restricted three-body problem (RTBP), in which one of the ...

Researchers at University of Idaho help discover small moon orbiting around Uranus

For researchers at the University of Idaho, spotting a moon 6 miles wide orbiting Uranus, a staggering 1.8 billion miles from ...
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Incredibly Realistic 3D Models of the Moon’s Surface (From 1874!)

A gem of a find by The Public Domain Review of a collection from the Rijksmuseum: photographs of plaster models of the ...

Warm exo-titans as a test of planetary atmospheric diversity

What can exoplanets orbiting M-dwarf stars teach scientists about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent ...

Moon-forming disk around massive planet offers insight into how the moons of gas giants might have formed

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical ...